Due: Thurs., 4 Sep. 2003 at midnight.
Read the attached three contest problems carefully. After doing so, make an estimate for each of how long it would take you to write a working program to solve them. The constraints on your solution are that you want to write a program quickly that is good enough to produce results for the expected sorts of input in, say, 15-30 seconds.
Select at least two of the problems and develop solutions (in either Java or C/C++), keeping track (be honest!) of how long it takes you. Compare these times with your estimates. What took more (or less) time than you expected, and why?
Important: Programs take input from the standard input, not a named file, regardless of what the instructions say
Hand in your solutions electronically. Here's how.
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